Lynda Mac
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@dlee30622171 @emzanotti Why do you need friends to pray for you? Mary is His mother. Jesus loves her so. I would be so remiss to not ask Mother Mary’s intercession on my behalf! Even as I pray directly to Our Lord!
I can speak to our Lord about my concerns. How wonderful to ask His mom for her prayers!
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@LynTMac @emzanotti Why do I need Mary, when I can go directly to Jesus?
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The guys who ran out of wine during the wedding at Cana
Yẹmí@KR3Wmatic
Who in the Bible prayed to Mary like Catholics do?
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When Catholic, Inc. starts shilling that you have a duty to see and support Mel Gibson's movie about the Resurrection, remember this.
Gibson's choice of on-site Mass celebrant was a priest prohibited from public ministry.
John-Henry Westen@JhWesten
Fr. Altman just celebrated Holy Mass on the set of Mel Gibson’s The Resurrection of the Christ — right after the final shot! 🙏 Our good friend @FatherAltman returned from Italy earlier this month after being on set for the last day of filming. Here’s what he told me: “I blessed the cast & crew as they prepared for the final ‘take.’ Then I was privileged to celebrate a Holy Mass of Thanksgiving for Mel and his closest associates.” #TheResurrectionOfTheChrist
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@Ravenismeee A few minutes ago! Had an idea for a book! Well, probably a short story and I hate to type things out in my phone! So I found a scrap of paper in my backpack (I always print out the itinerary for our flight) and scribbled down the initial idea when inspiration hit!
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Sharing this reflection again because today someone mentioned the challenges of living in community!
open.substack.com/pub/lyndamacfa…
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@kathrynlopez It was crazy. I was grateful for absolution and am respectful of his vocation. But it was almost comical imho.
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“priests are not therapists. A few pastoral courses in seminary making use of watered-down or popularized psychology do not make them so. Nor should priests feel compelled to insert their personalities constantly or to create psychological engagement in the confessional.”
Fr. Thomas Petri OP@PetriOP
“The triumph of the therapeutic did not abolish confession. It made confession feel psychologically heavy, and many Catholics stopped going regularly.” More thoughts at @firstthingsmag.
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Google Search as you know it is over
"Instead of returning a simple list of links, Google Search will drop users into AI-powered interactive experiences at times."
techcrunch.com/2026/05/19/goo…
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@PaulinusOfTrier Yup! Many times to Europe, various countries, as a US Military family member and later as a tourist. Also in S. Korea!
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@LynTMac Do you travel in more than one continent ?
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Has anyone actually been at a Mass where there was liturgical abuse, as opposed to seeing it on internet? I have seen these examples. (1) use of crockery at a Mass instead of proper vessels. (2) untrained volunteers being given the role of extraordinary ministers of holy communion resulting in compounded abuses. (3) refusal to give communion to a person who was kneeling for it.
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@BillieJeanKing @HarmeetKDhillon @CalStateLA Earned MA in Theological Studies at the age of 59! I started when I was 50. Took 9 year with a sabbatical of a few years in the midst due to life happening. But I was never more relieved and content to have finally achieved my long time goal! And so grateful to the Lord!
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Here’s my latest Substack. On St. Terese of Lisieux and authoritarianism.
open.substack.com/pub/lyndamacfa…
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@dianemontagna @TheAnchoress Cannot wait to hear his warnings but also his wisdom on how we can resist this anti-human development in our modern world. Let us pray.
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JUST IN: Vatican announces that Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical — titled Magnifica Humanitas, on the safeguarding of the human person in the age of AI — will be presented at 11:30am on Monday, May 25, in the Vaticanʼs Synod Hall, in the presence of the Holy Father.
Speakers at the presentation will include:
Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith;
Cardinal Michael Czerny, Prefect of the Dicastery for the Service of Integral Human Development;
Professor Anna Rowlands, Political Theology, including Catholic Social Teaching, and theological ethics of human migration, Department of Theology and Religion, Durham University, United Kingdom;
Christopher Olah, co-founder of Anthropic (USA) and head of interpretability research for artificial intelligence;
Dr. Leocadie Lushombo, Political Theology and Catholic Social Thought, Jesuit School of Theology / Santa Clara University, California.
Concluding remarks will be delivered by thel Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin.
The presentation will also include an address by Pope Leo XIV.
Magnifica Humanitas was signed and dated on May 15, the 135th anniversary of the promulgation of Pope Leo XIII’s Encyclical Letter Rerum Novarum.
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@JonahDispatch And WHY does he have a crush on Xi? You know what’s alarming? Most people in the US think of China as our adversary, including our Military. Why doesn’t the president?
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When you listen to Trump talk about Taiwan (or many other topics) it’s the stuff he doesn’t say that is more revealing. Asked about Taiwan he blathers on about how big and strong China is, how tiny Taiwan is, about tariffs and dumb American presidents who didn’t use them. What doesn’t he talk about?
Alliances, obligations, democracy, values, honor, etc.
Keep in mind, if you don’t care whether Trump throws Taiwan under the bus, that wouldn’t be the only betrayal involved. We’d be screwing Japan, South Korea, the Philippines, and Australia too. I’m not saying we should get into a shooting war over Taiwan. I am saying Trump shouldn’t betray our allies, our values, and our national security and national honor just because he’s got a man crush on Xi.
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My latest Substack reflection is up. Have a joyful Sunday.
open.substack.com/pub/lyndamacfa…
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